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Abstract #147148
Audio (mp3) recordingMary Jo Clark, PhD, RN, PHN, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, 619-260-4574, clark@sandiego.edu and Bulaporn Natipagon-Shah, PhD, RN, Thai Health and Information Services, Inc., 1654 N. Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028.
Health-related behaviors, such as breast cancer screening, are influenced by a wide variety of factors. In order to promote breast cancer screening in ethnic minority groups, specific factors influencing screening behaviors must be identified and understood. Focus groups are one means of identifying factors influencing breast cancer screening in a particular ethnic population. Focus groups give rise to extensive amounts of data, so it is helpful to have some sort of organizing structure for analyzing the data and identifying points at which intervention will most likely enhance screening behaviors. Focus groups were conducted with Thai women in the Southern California area to identify factors influencing mammography screening in this population. Data were organized in terms of the dimensions of health component of the Dimensions Model of Community Health Nursing. Factors influencing mammography screening were identified in each of the six dimensions of health and provide direction for nursing interventions to promote breast cancer screening in this population.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify components of the Dimensions Model of Community Health Nursing
- Describe the application of the dimensions of health to factors affecting health-related behaviors.
- Use the Dimensions Model of Community Health Nursing to develop population-specific nursing interventions.
Keywords: Breast Cancer Screening, Practice-Based Research
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA